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Maybe its cause my 76 is a non x? there is a hole
there for sumthin?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:15
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: the
"X" (was Fwd: Emailing: Hornet 1)
Huh, I swapped one from a 76 to a 74 once apon a time.
Davis , I tried the NOS one I have here on
my 76 grill(e?!) and it dosen't fit It does fit my 74 grille.. I
believe I saw a differnt pn for a 76 one on ebay about a mont
ago.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:46
PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re:
the "X" (was Fwd: Emailing: Hornet 1)
All the gremlin ones I have ever seen from 73 up have been the
same. Pacer was slightly different.
Bill
The X on a late 73-74 is different
from the X on a 75-76...
mike
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:47 PM
Subject: RE: [BaadAssGremlins]
Re: the "X" (was Fwd: Emailing: Hornet 1)
Speaking of "X"'s and I am not talking about the x
wife! I got a box of
"goodies" last week for the cost of shipping
and one of the little surprises
that I got was a grille "X" that
is in need of restoration but a good
drivers "X". Strange how it
is it is different then the N.O.S. that I have.
It is larger then
the N.O.S. one and has a different backing on it also.
They both
have different part numbers on them also. So....whats with that?
Why would they change the size of a grille "X"? Is one for
the first
generation grille and the other for the second
generation grille? No biggie!
Just a wondering as usuall! Keep on
a....Ramblin'!
Bill Renshaw Lewiston Idaho
AKA
Brother B.
AMC'S RULE.....the rest just drool like the dogs they
are.
1973 Gremlin X "clone" (project)
1970 Original Hornet
"plain jane"
1974 Matador Coupe "Parts
car"
>From: "Eddie Stakes"
<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To:
BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To:
<BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject:
[BaadAssGremlins] Re: the "X" (was Fwd: Emailing: Hornet
1)
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:15:48 -0500
>
>On the
little "X" for glovebox doors on Gremlin and Hornet this was a
>little
>decal AMC shoved in the far right of the slot.
This was done easily by the
>bean counters at AMC to make 'one
item' morph into many items. In other
>words, take one stamping
and use it for a variety of applications, they
>were
>the
kings of that.
>
>Want another example? Playing Mantis in
a conversation with them in the 90s
>when the 1:64th AMX was
being developed, wanted a number of photos from me,
>which they
got. So armed with that one initial die to make the
little
>SS/AMXs....then they could make dozens of others
including solid colored
>cars, different paint schemes
ect.
>
>I have included here two photos, both of my 71
SC/360 glovebox door which
>is
>off the car as I do the
interior. Yes, the "SC360" is ALSO a decal,
>metallic
>one just like the Gremlin, Hornet, X, and
everything else AMC stuck with
>glue in the slot...later even
used for 77 AMX. AMC part number of the
>cover/bezel is
3616376.
>
>What I want you to notice isseveral things.
One is this original 71 SC/360
>cover started it's life out as
'chrome' see the behind shot. Many parts on
>AMCs started their
lives out as different colors then matched by paint.
>Another
example would have been that 71 Matador with 14,000 miles I
just
>had, the interior was green, but you pull off some of the
unmolested
>interior parts that had never been moved since
Kenosha installed them and
>they were black, or
tan!
>
>So here is three photos, the back of the original
SC/360 cover, a NOS "X"
>dropped in if this was a X Gremlin or
Hornet and the SC/360 insert also. I
>may add that the "X" and
"SC/360" inserts are embossed, that is you can run
>your finger
over them and they are raised.
>
>PS: NO!!! AMC continued
to use "old style" American Motors logos on their
>shit well
after 1970. Some people believe it stopped in 1970 with
new
>design. Wrong, AMC old style logo continued into the late
1970s, as they
>emptied parts bins and used parts, note the "old
style" American Motors
>Corporation logo stamped on back of the
SC/360 glovebox door.
>
>And yes.......that is FACTORY
BLUE OVERSPRAY on the back of the glovebox
>door.
>Eddie
Stakes'
>Planet Houston
AMX
>713.464.8825
>eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>www.planethoustonamx.com
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